400,000: The invisible deaths of covid-19

[COL Mustard]

Thanks, Don. This is your real legacy, and I hope you sleep very soundly at night. (No, I really don't.). This is a blistering attack on how we've handled the virus.

Source: WaPo
Link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/national/400000-deaths-coronavirus-us/?wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNTk2YmM5YzNhZTdlOGE0NGU3ZGQ4MjE2IiwidGFnIjoid3BfbmV3c19hbGVydF9yZXZlcmUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZ3JhcGhpY3MvMjAyMS9uYXRpb25hbC80MDAwMDAtZGVhdGhzLWNvcm9uYXZpcnVzLXVzLz93cG1rPTEmd3Bpc3JjPWFsX25ld3NfX2FsZXJ0LWhzZS0tYWxlcnQtbmF0aW9uYWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1hbGVydCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj13cF9uZXdzX2FsZXJ0X3JldmVyZSZsb2NhdGlvbj1hbGVydCJ9.TCi9bjNF9rG9Id0ksQmLFxLxapJ68T4UBbF5VItFMjg

Excerpt:

By Marc Fisher, Lori Rozsa, Mark Kreidler and Annie Gowen
In a Connecticut hospital room, a woman less than 48 hours from death posted on Facebook: “It is now just a matter of trying to keep me comfortable till I pass.”

A few days before Christmas, less than a week before he died at home, a California man texted his daughter: “Vaccines on the way. Gettin kinda close.”

Nearly 400,000 Americans have now died of covid-19. It took 12 weeks for the death toll to rise from 200,000 to 300,000. The death toll has leaped from 300,000 to almost 400,000 in less than five weeks.

[Mariana]

1. They shouldn't be invisible.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that's been made in this pandemic is hiding the bodies. From the beginning, there should have been pictures and footage of the bodies all over the TV and internet, every day. We saw a little of that at first, but then it vanished. It's made it way too easy for the deniers to believe that the death figures are lies.

[COL Mustard]

2. During The Vietnam War

There were weekly casualty figures on the nightly news. It kept pressure on the politicians. Maybe that is what we should have now.

[Mariana]

4. There are Covid-19 death figures every single night on the news.

Even Fox News Reports the numbers. It obviously isn't enough. They should have shown us the bodies.

[unblock]

3. Once upon a time, the news counted the days 52 hostages were held

They reminded us every day the new count. There was even an entire news program dedicated to that one topic, every night.

They stretched to find third cousins of the hostages to interview, but no matter, they had a democratic president they needed to pummel.


Nightly stories of some of the victims of this pandemic would make compelling news, never mind updates on vaccines and treatment and outbreaks and so on.

But no, much better to focus on polls of how people think Donnie's handling it or how Biden will handle it or something else entirely.



Yes, I know some of this is getting airtime. But it's not getting the focus that crap like Benghazi or emails got.